Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Prefer a loss to dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

- Chilo

Best Quotes about Honesty

Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.

Fielding, Henry

Successful people have cultivated the habit of never denying to themselves their true feelings and attitudes. They have no need for pretenses.

Fink, David Harold

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

On this mounting the scaffold to be beheaded: I pray you Master Lieutenant, see me safely up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself. To the executioner: Pick up thy spirits, Man, and be not afraid to do thy office; my neck is very short; take heed, therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thy honesty.

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.

Benson, Edward Frederic

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

Otway, Thomas

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.

Thomas Sowell

10.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

11.

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

12.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

13.

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Anderson

14.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

15.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

16.

People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.

Mamet, David

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The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

Buscaglia, Leo

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The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

Lyly, John

19.

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

Needham, Richard J.

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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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When we are not honest, we are cut off from a significant resource of ourselves, a vital dimension that is necessary for unity and wholeness.

Moustakas, Clark

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Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Ruskin, John

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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

25.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

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If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could throw us off our center, so that no matter what misfortune should overtake us, there would still be a whole magnificent man or woman left after being stripped of everything else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Blum, Leon

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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

Nouwen, Henri

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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

31.

You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. [Leviticus 19:11]

Bible

32.

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

Stephen, Leslie

33.

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

Houston, Sam

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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.

Burns, George

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I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.

Iacocca, Lee

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There is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he's crooked.

Marx, Groucho

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Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

Sam Rayburn

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Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

Hill, Napoleon

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You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.

Cayce, Edgar

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Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

Sugarman, Joseph

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Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

Billings, Josh

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Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it.

Twain, Mark

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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.